Skip to main contentRemainders: On the unexpected lessons from Regents week
By | June 21, 2013, 2:34am UTC - One lesson from the hard slog of Regents week: that students are good people. (View from the Bronx)
- Teacher Marc Epstein puts the current Regents scoring fiasco into an historical context. (HuffPo)
- A new documentary profiles a Newark high school teacher of students with autism. (Answer Sheet)
- A researcher says criticism of testing in New York City is fair, but a real plan is needed. (Eric Horowitz)
- Jessica Siegel says she knows from a phone call that StudentsFirstNY is planning a comeback. (HuffPo)
- A teacher breaks down and learns from his students’ responses to a survey he gave. (Larry Ferlazzo)
- City schools have very different yields from parent fundraising, which a map shows. (N.Y. World)
- In Japan, one out of 40 students refuses to go to school, and few school options exist for them. (NY1)
- A UFT official sees a disheartening future and a need for change in the city’s graduation rate. (Edwize)
- A cigar store will have to close after smoking up Millennium High School’s gym. (Downtown Express)
- Having to round up support for their classes can feel like groveling for teachers. (TAL via Hechinger)
- City teens, with the Center for Court Innovation, have ideas for curbing absenteeism. (Insideschools)